Tag Archives: photography

Weekly Photo Challenge: Self-Portrait

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They say

we know
who we are
in adulthood –

sister,
not brother,
wife,
not mother  –

a prosaic mosaic,
fragments of a self

but don’t ask me
to complete the picture –

time has lost
more than a few pieces

Weekly Photo Challenge: Celebration

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21 years married today –

cause for celebration,

wouldn’t you say?

😀

xxx

Because it’s my wedding anniversary today, I’m celebrating my other half by posting some photos he took

on another day of celebration – NYE 2009

Sydney – NYE 2009

Sydney - NYE 2009

Sydney - NYE 2009


Weekly Photo Challenge: Breakfast

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Once a yearon our 9-hour coastal journey south

we stop off for breakfast

at Narooma’s Quarterdeck Marina

home of fabulous retro kitsch

and the breakfasts of intrepid travellers

and,
if a sudden gust blows in,
fried-egg antimacassars
😀

Weekly Photo Challenge: Wonder

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As is
so often the case,

I took
the photograph
first, then
looked.

Saw the water
messaged fresh across his
name,

and I wondered then

if you were there
in the shade of the oaks
watching me

in distaste.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hidden

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Nature hides then reveals its beauty

I took this photo at Myall Lakes last year of what appears to be a cicada that’s just emerged from its nymph shell. Unfortunately, the colour balance of the photo isn’t good even with a bit of doctoring but it gives an idea of the contrast between the packaging and its contents.

Cicada and nymph shell - Myall Lakes, NSW, Australia

And the  poem below is about the duplicitous side of human nature –  (it’s a re-post of one of my earliest on this blog).

Wicked

How witchlike a creature can I be
when the moth at a swipe digs its claws into me
and the blood in my veins cascades to the ground
and the thoughts in my head make no audible sound.

How witchlike a creature do I feel
when a table for two is a cannibals’ meal
and the eggs in the pantry go rotten inside
and the cow in the meadow eats its own hide.

How witchlike a creature do I seem
when the nightmare you chase is my sacred dream
when the pain in your heart is the pleasure in mine
when the warmth that you drink is a poisonous wine.

Everything is not what it seems
The smile on my face is the end to a means.

Special thanks to Gabrielle Bryden for guest-posting me on her blog this week  😀

Weekly Photo Challenge: Possibility

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Change

is always

a possibility

Apartheid Museum – Johannesburg, South Africa

‘The next thing you think, the next action you take will either create possibility for you or it will repeat the past’
Deepak Chopra

Weekly Photo Challenge: Comfort

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Coffee art - Pala Pizza, NYC

I sleep in; you are gone when I wake,
but here in our kitchen,

in the egg in the pan
to be boiled,
the GF bread
already once-toasted,
Vivalto Lungo
in the Nespresso machine (eat your heart out, George),

I find you

It is this that keeps me

these minutiae of love,
all the comfort
I need

Buzzing around NYC

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Look up

Empire State Building

New York by Gehry

Breakfast at Sarabeth’s Central Park South

Sarabeth's Central Park South

Cycle Central Park

Central Park

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir

Look out

West view from ESB

Subway Uptown, Downtown, East and West

NYC subway

Shop vintage at David Owens

David Owens - Lower East Side

Picnic on the High Line…

The High Line

..with food from the market at Grand Central Station

Food Market at Grand Central Station

Food Market at Grand Central Station

Explore Grand Central Station

Grand Central Station

Observe the passing parade in Times Square

Time Square

Times Square

Walk Uptown

Time Warner Center

Muse at the Met

Little Dancer - Edgar Degas

Tipple at the 18th Floor

The 18th Floor at The Standard

Dine at Pastis

Pastis bar

Look down (or not if you suffer from vertigo 🙂 )

One of many views from ESB

Cruise the Hudson

A Downtown view from the Hudson

Walk Downtown

Flatiron Building

Reflect at the 9/11 Memorial

North Pool and Performing Arts Center

Weekly Photo Challenge: Flowers

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It’s winter in Sydney, so I’m not feeling inspired to go on a photographic flower hunt or think beyond this postaweek’s literal theme, so here are a few I took last spring in the Sydney Botanic Gardens

Herb Garden Sundial

Kangaroo Paw (and Renzo Piano-designed buildings)

Kangaroo Paw

Spring Walk 2010

Wisteria

Spring Walk 2010

Spring Walk 2010

Ranunculus

Variegated Tulip

Ranunculus and Variegated Tulip

Herb Garden Sundial

Weekly Photo Challenge: Mountains

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These are pics from Mt Kosciuszko – Australia’s highest mountain – taken last Christmas, would you believe, in the middle of our summer.

Mt Kosciuszko walk

We do get snow in this wide brown land, sometimes even in summer

Snow's a bit of a novelty for me

The stats - at 2228m, not quite Everest

A view from the summit

Homewards - and 6km to a chilled glass of champers

PS – I’m tired of all the gloom and doom in the world right now and having exorcised, over the last year, a few ghosts that had been hanging around for far too long, I’ll be posting alternative perspectives (if only, on occasion ;-)) via the weekly photo challenge.